Erasing history?: The debate over Confederate monuments
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- ABC News' Martha Raddatz sits down with Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, co-CEO of the American Civil War Museum Christy Coleman, and Charlottesville City Councilor Kristin Szakos to discuss the debate over Confederate monuments.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
I think the German people still remember the holocaust without statues of Hitler. Education is more important than a statue. Move them all to civil war museums and battlefields, they shouldn’t be on the middle of cities or names of schools. In my opinion.
@@mrasmussen90 why do we have statues of the baphomet? The Confederate statues are all reminders of who fought to end slavery. You might remember the holocaust but you should see how many dont, they dont teach about it in the west hardly at all. If those historical statues come down EVERY statue will come down, remember we are supposed to have a equal society.
Maryann Deweerd to me there’s just no place for them in public spaces. I can make 100 analogies about how it would be similar to have statues of British Kings up in the US, that’s part of our history right? But either way the confederate soldiers were bad people who fought for horrible things. It’s time to take them down.
@@mrasmussen90 the generals who are the statues weren't bad people most of them were actually union generals before the war they fought for what they believed in slavery is bad and horrible but it is part of our history we shouldn't pick and choose which parts
@@SentientSingularity how are the statues honoring them they sure aren't anymore and most of those generals weren't bad people. Lee “thought it was a bad idea for Virginia to secede, and God knows he was right, but secession had been more or less democratically decided upon.”
If people don’t like them just bring them to a museum because it is part of history
Are you also okay with the U.S. building monuments symbolizing the holocaust to honor the Nazi’s?
White history
@@user-jf8mf8xr7j still history
@@user-jf8mf8xr7jAnd? What is you point here. Are you saying that white history should be erased? The crusades, the roman empire the french empire, the british empire,, the french revolution the American revolution, the war of 1812, the American civil war, ww1, ww2, the cold War, Vietnam War, all these wars and countries and revolutions should be forgotten?
@@jaymessmoyer340 well ain’t no history of mine regarding that white man aka PALE face !!! He stood for nothing but hate !!!! Again that’s your history !!!!? A his story of no value
we definitely shouldn't erase history, but we shouldn't glorify it either.
Wonder if any museums bought the monuments.
I hope so.
They been burned
@@BeeMannOriginality Yes indeed, the statues are being vandalized, burnt and spray painted. They can use legal channels, via the government. The anarchic crowds are largely people under 30 years old, whom have only a sketchy understanding of history. Where are the Police, Park Rangers, and FBI, to do their duty?
That's wear they belong. It's time they stop letting the losers of the war get celebrated. They formed their own country which folded and so should their symbols of treason.
I bet in the future our kids will be in school & when says who fought in the civil war all the kids reply captain America & iron man
Red X I'm sure most will ask, "what evil so possessed a group of people that they would believe that they should be allowed to own and enslave others?"
1Drummer nice philosophy you study under Plato
Red X That is revisionist history and a gross oversimplification! Everyone knows it's was also fought by black widow and the falcon, not to mention spider man, ant man, scarlett witch and black panther all joined the fray later! Get your facts straight before you start attacking our history, Fake news!
Red :
Too late, the future is already here and those kids now post online.
Tony Raffetto whatever
Taking these monuments down will do as much to end racism as building a monument to homelessness will end homelessness.
Thank you!
@Pat Cornwell that's a deluded racist for you ...building a platform to protect babies that are not even here, while simultaneously brutalizing and killing blacks already here ..
@@georgemckenzie1824
You're deluted for accepting the party that doesn't want a black society by making them abort they're coming generations.
The party that doesn't care the killings of people from any age.
Pat Cornwell Keep that same energy with law enforcement because cops used to be slave catchers. They didn’t even bother to change the badge.
Well i would like to walk down the street without seeing a traitor glorified
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell 1984
Put those statues in museums don't destroy them let every one know just what those traitors fought for
Keep them right where they are.
@@jimmyjimmy7240 no they were traitors they don't deserve to be idolized and were gonna show every one just what they betrayed their nation for(hint hint it wasn't states rights the fact that the moment they lost they institued jim crows laws should make this evident)
@@spartanx9293
They weren't necessarily traitors. A lot of them were defending their homes; a lot of Americans looked at the country as a nation of city-states like ancient Greece. Secondly, the nation was doing to the south what England was doing to the colonies. I don't agree with the race sentiment, but they were hardly traitors. They were also Americans, no matter what.
@@jimmyjimmy7240 no it wasn't the south was actually overly represented in the Supreme Court and state that paid the most in tariffs was new York also they rebelled for the sake of maintaining their peculiar instition
@@jimmyjimmy7240no they were traitors who tried to destroy our country and those bastards who started it got off easy they should have been hanged
This didn't age well. They said no way they would ever want to remove a statue of Washington or Jefferson. Well now it's 2020 and they're trying to remove those too.
These idiots pull one of the statue on themselves and injured people. Lol
God, I mean it makes since to take the cofederate flags/Statues ,but they both help make are nation.
🛵 Were Washington and Jefferson white ? Then yes, they want to remove them.
"Let's just keep the horse!"
Facts
Might as well tear down the Alamo it was taken from Mexico.
Shhh...dont give em any ideas!!!
Lost Ones nah it’s a good idea they want us to go back to Mexico so we’ll take it with us
@@mexican_wbc9946 I think it will be OK one of these days. I have family who lives a few miles from the border and she never has problems. Maybe just build his wall north of the Alamo so its in Mexico 😂😅
Yep
@James Madison Mexicans...we took from them
We will forget about the civil war....
there was no confederacy just the states..
I'm a Civil War Reenactor i do federal and confederate. you should keep them up to honor all of the men that fought and lost their lives from 1861-1865
Billy Hollinghurst Maybe Germany should have erected statues and monuments to honor the nazis who fought and died too?! Get real, it was a horrible mistake to put these statues and monuments up in the first place. Tear them down and put them in museums where they belong.
1Drummer Most Germans in the Wehrmacht weren’t Nazis, crack a book
+1Drummer
Most Confederates never owned slaves nor did they support it, they were fighting for pride.
Get real.
Billy Hollinghurst Get real--fighting is not usually a positive value. I realize that you have fun by going out to play war reenactment games, but perhaps the confederate soldiers should have refused to fight simply because it was offered to them. They had nothing to gain, lost everything, and incurred devastation on their entire world. Just about the worst thing ever. They were romantic and emotionally driven to fight, but they lost. Monuments just look stupid.
How was slavery legal in the first place? Because slavery existed for thousands of years and was common place in every society. Even Africa. yes some of the people that where brought over to America to be slaves were already slaves to begin with. And don't forget, people in the North also owned slaves long before the Civil War. George Washington had slaves, Thomas Jefferson claimed all Men are created equal. He was not talking about black slaves when he said that. You do know that he also owned slaves, don't you., Stop thinking that only the leaders and Generals from the South on the Confederate side were terrible slave owners. Many never owned slaves.
We need to remember the past, So we don't make the same mistakes. We can not simply whip it out just because you don't agree with it.
I wonder if the Army of Northern Virginia would still fight for the South if they knew that one day the South wouldn't fight for them?
I was surprised to learn that the monument debate wasn't isolated to the US. The exact same thing is going on in the UK and other countries with their own historical figures. It's like the same playbook is being used over and over regardless of the local specifics. Only the name of the local object of outrage changes from place to place. I find this very unusual. It makes me wonder if the instigators are truly upset about historical monuments or if they are just feigning outrage over whatever is locally available to complain about according to their script.
I think it is dumb.
Change your perspective not your statues, grow up children.
"It is a misfortune for the dead man, that his enemy survived him, and wrote his story." Friedrich von Schiller, History of the Thirty Years' War
Actually, lil baby was the first person to say that, not friedrich von schiller
🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
actually I said it, who is lili baby?
But where was the AK’s in the video you just showed I didn’t see any
I didn't see any either 🤔🧐🔫
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870) was an American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 and earned a reputation as a skilled tactician.
Also, he fought to free the slaves on his family’s estate, and merely fought for his state, not for slavery.
@@metal_fusion He fought for his state, just because he didn’t like the federal government. He was originally in the US Army, but formally resigned and sent Lincoln an letter about it. And again, when he inherited his family’s plantation, he freed all slaves on it.
🛵 There's a large group of uneducated people so ignorant that they call this man a 'white demon'.
The greatest Virginian. 🏛️
If tearing down statues of Hitler was okay than this is too
Wait this was 2 years ago?
These statues would be more appropriately located if they were in cemeteries and museums
Put them in a museum! Go there to reflect on your own time...
Interesting point. But then again the same could be said of EVERY monument
We need a new plague
Jillian Kennett lol this is what iv been sayin
Jillian Kennett Bro
Welp
Welp
Well damn.
Just watched Patriots Day. What if the family of the bombers wanted to put money into statues for them? Would that be the same thing?
If it was about slavery why did the Union still own slaves during the war
What do you think the war was about then?
it wasnt the whole union it was like 5 states that still owned slaves. those states only held slaves because they needed them more than the north.
@@troygomez2089 states rights to do what?
Darby Gomez - Way flat wrong.
Spot on here. Lincoln didnt free the slaves until the middle of the war. Could it have been a ploy for political will?
Hilarious because the monuments were Democratic soldiers,So let's earse history to surpress the truth.
those monument figures support the plantation businessman for cash. w/o them, a civil war never happen and nobody die. If the confederate wins, they will erase Lincoln totally in US history.
@Pat Cornwell wtf is with you on EVERY comment... "half dead unborn black babies? Dude take your meds or something cuz u make 0 sense 🙄🤔🧐
Platform switched...
@@soniablade7192 No there was No switch,Democrats are still the party of slavery, corruption and a hunger for absolute power.
@@soniablade7192 fake switch
If they take it down, put it in a museum. Why destroy it when it has history behind it?
Why can't you have nostalgia or honor people of the past. Tbh, I would rather look to people in the past as heroes or models (good and the bad) rather than Captain America, Iron Man, Batman, etc.
You sound stupid af
Champ why erase history. I didn’t support the confederates but doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be remember as history. If we tear down these statues what good does it do the past already happened and a statue wont end racism once its gone.
@@mxguitar1 youre a dope....tear them down...they never should have gone up in the first place.....
@@mxguitar1 Their history isn't being erased, it's just that traitors are no longer being honored.
Do you know what nostalgia means?
So these guys are upset they want to take down their Participation Trophies?
Put the damn things in a museum whereby those who Revere them can go to the museum to adore them!
we should take down confederate statues because losers and traitors shouldn't get participation trophies
Agreed like Indiana Jones would say "those belong in a museum"
compano are you saying that cause they owned slaves or saying that they betrayed
Removing a statute won’t effect what we learn in history class
Sure it wont.
Elard 245 Trump wants to give parents school choice so you don’t have to be indoctrinated by the public education system. Does that sound good to you?
Yall complained when they took a knee for the flag, but celebrated people who seeked to fly the confederate flag over the union flag. What a joke.
Fifty Nifty-to those mopes, that made perfect sense...no joke!
Why is the party of Lincoln so offended over the removal of confederate statues? 🤔🤔🤔
@Solstice of Snow You could be banned from RUclips for putting truth out like that..shame.shame.shame!!!
Derek Requiem-youre a dope....its not just a party that are offended by rapist, fascist, traitors, and racist....anybody with more than 2 brain cells feels the same way....its only diehard neo confederate dopes who are sill trying protect and honor , hateful honor-less people....
@Solstice of Snow yeah and nothing to do with a whole country full of white people that watched all this time, and doing nothing while blacks suffered....you cant make a case trying to make people fighting to level out purposeful imbalances, for the betterment of the rights of all, to be the guilty party....
and in a delusional corrosive environment like this, it would be a miracle if anyone wasnt corrupted...hate, lies and brutality have been normalized....
Even I'm ashamed.
Abraham Lincoln You’re ashamed of what? Being too lazy to know when you’re being lied to and manipulated?
@@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937 ashamed of them erasing history.
Abraham Lincoln I’m pissed off. I will NEVER be ashamed.
Robert E Lee was married to Washington's family
Taking down a statue isn't gonna change that your ancestors were slaves
Just because you are offended by it doesn't mean you should remove it
Taking down a statue isn't gonna change that the confederacy were losers
Just because you are offended by it doesn't mean you should complain about removing it
History has been rewritten by the victor to cover up how this horrible war really started.
It is the losers and their descendants who try to cover up history, by whitewashing the confederacy.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past
Memorialising slavers is very different from teaching history.
@@commissarlorax3406 Robert E Lee was anti slave idiot. I hope all statues remain unchanged
Robert E Lee didn't even want a statue of himself
I suspect that it has been taken out of context, because he wanted to heal the country's wounds.
We should all FORGET the past so it will never be repeated!
Wrong, learn from the past and learn what we did wrong and why we shouldn't let it happen again."those who forget history are doomed to forget it".
leave all the statues!! I am sure I could find something wrong with Lincoln, MLk and Genghis Kahn whoever else you want to name, a lot can be learned from history, I have traveled around saw these memorials learned a lot about the old days, when these people were alive good and bad. I don't understand the idea of not teaching history to the children. The future leaders of the world have history to help guide their decisions. most of the issues that we deal with today are not newly invented, I guarantee people leading these campaigns are looking at history to make their decisions.
Agreed. Every man has something bad they've done. Instead of focusing on the bad. Let's focus on the good these men have done and use the good as an example for us. Robert E Lees story is actually really inspiring. It's a true American tale. A man who felt like he had to fight for his beliefs. The wrong side i think. But still honorable none the less. People respect Rommel a German tank commander. I dont agree with the Confederate side but i can respect a man fighting for his cause. These people trying to erase our history, if they succeed, we will forget it and we will be doomed to repeat it.
Of course you both are white men :)
Lmao dude put MLK and Ghengis Khan in the same sentence to try and make a point
I would settle for a statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
5:10 What Mr. President is saying is where do you draw the line. One you take down monuments of people who fought to preserve southern heritage, could one argue that they should take down Jefferson's because he owned slaves? What some uneducated people fail understand that parts in American history is very violent and sometimes racist, which is why we need to keep these statues so they don't repeat themselves. If you don't like the monuments, just don't look at them, and at the very worse they should be put in museum for those who want to see men who didn't want to be pushed around buy the North.
If they have to be moved, move them to the Civil War battlefields. Let them mark the battlefields with them.
500 rascist. The msm make it sound like half united states rasist lol. I was raised Christian so i was taught everyone equal. I do see a divide between rich and poor which i feel is bigger issue
What people need to realise is that in the end, it’s not about race anymore in modern America; it’s about class. It’s one of the reasons why Trump won, and possibly will win again. Especially Democrats are the ones not seeing the problem that is occuring right in front of our own eyes...
If you remove lesson from history you open up a path for falsehoods, myths and speculation.
We need to love our neighbor and care for all people in our community. The lessons we learn
from history keep us from being blindsided by lawlessness.
well how do you look now?
Don’t erase the History make a monumental South Museum to protect History not destroy!
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Please Mr. Ricard re-read my comments. I said the Dems WERE against it until they changed it to correspond to the Communist Manifesto, "THEN THEY SUPPORTED IT." You Dems are amazing! You have it in black & white right in front of you, and still your comprehension is mind boggling.
there was no such thing as a dixiecrat in the late 1800's. thats a made up term from the 1950s. you need to read a few more books kid.
Neither party has clean hands, they have gone wherever their donors want them to.
America has always had the best Government Money can Buy.
Anyone who believes in his heart that the community should "take" the use of someone's private property away from him, and give it to someone else IS a communist. It's a foundational principle of communism. It's called "stealing." There's nothing worse than communism, not rape, not murder, not slavery, not cannibalism,--nothing! That's why wars are fought over it.
Anthony Smith :
I think the word you are missing is "sharing", like "compromise", a word seriously misunderstood in America.
As an outsider I see removing the monuments as erasing history. They should stay but with the right text below them explaining who and what these people stood for and did. Be they a Tyrant, label them a tyrant and why for people to learn. 'Learning' from history is important. If there was a united Ireland, some, not all nationalist people may want to take down Edward Carson's monument from Stormont in Belfast. This would also be wrong for the same reasons.
monuments aren't history (we have museums, documents, teaching, and even the internet for that), especially when they were created to intimidate black people during the jim crow and civil rights eras, which many confederate monuments were. most of those monuments weren't created to commemorate unbiased history...it was to celebrate their racist points of view to discourage civil growth (there was a spike in confederate monument the year the KKK was formed, for example). the purpose of removing these monuments isn't to erase history, its to undo the racist intent they were created to satisfy. since you are an outsider i can see how you wouldn't understand that. hopefully, this helps.
somebody explain what a library is to this inbred
@@danny-do3vk where does it stop? burning books? clearing out museums? putting racists in concentration camps? You cannot apply modern principles and morals to a time 160 years ago, those people were very much different than we are. if you look at all historical figures, you can find fault with almost all of them when compared to modern morals but should their history be erased because of it?
Taking them down will not change anything
Try as they may to mute history they can never change it! Ha,ha,ha!! 🤣🤣🤣
The history is that the confederacy lost/failed. Why would we want to change that?
If remembering history is so important should we put up statues of Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth?
Live near Richmond and I can tell you everyone I know and in fact city council itself thinks mayor Stoney is a tool.
This is what happens when you put treble people in charge and not civilize people sad times for Richmond
The Rebel Flag and all of these Confederate monuments have nothing to do with American history if you look back into history. One will see that America broke apart, and that flag represented a whole different country technically. Since the south broke apart from the north. Also, the problem with this confederate stuff is the history and racism that will haunt the Confederate legacy forever. that is why they watch what you do, because it will eventually come back to haunt you in the past, and this confederate stuff is a prime example.
Number one rebel flag had nothing to do with the Confederacy in the first place. The rebel flag was West Virginia regiment Battle Flag it was never flown as a flag for the Confederacy. Civil War and the Confederacy has a lot to do with American history just as the Revolutionary War had a lot to do with American history. As far as the South being racist and owning slaves the North had slaves and we're just as racist. George Washington had slaves Benjamin Franklin had slaves General Grant head of the Union Army took his slaves in the battle. Two northern states would never even recognize the Emancipation Proclamation. There were northern states that only freed slaves after they turn the age of 18. These monuments such as Stonewall Jackson should stay up Stonewall Jackson was a hero to a lot of slaves. Stonewall Jackson educated African-Americans at the time that it was actually illegal in Lexington and in Virginia to even educate a Slave. He started the Lexington Presbyterian Sunday School where he taught in African Americans who were slaves how to read and write after he join the Confederacy and went to war he would send money home so that those African Americans could afford to buy Bibles and hymnals. In my opinion Thomas Stonewall Jackson was a big part not only the Confederacy but American history and African American history. there was nothing racist about that man. People need to learn their history studying and read get educated before that make comments.
@Will J God Bless you. We need more education. People like you Will J give me hope in this country.
Yes but you have to ask yourself if you are a southerner how would the Southerners and Atlanta feel if there is a monument of general Sherman in downtown Atlanta or one in downtown Vicksburg of General Grant there is one of General Grant in Vicksburg but it’s in a government museum
🛵 See your point, but Sherman wasn't from Georgia. At least these statues are of native sons of their state.
Protesting black man: Why do you carry that flag? Confederate flag holder: BECAUSE THIS IS MY HERRITAGE, MY FAMILY FOUGHT TO SAVE THEIR FARM UNDER THIS FLAG. Protesting Blackman: WHO WAS WORKING THAT FARM? Confederate flag holder: *silence*
He put him on hushmode😬😱
I'm Turkish and I have great interest in history. I'm really having difficulty understanding Americans tearing down statues of historical figures. I thought Robert E. Lee was personally against fighting but went back to Virginia because Lincoln was raising an army to invade his own country. He was a wise man and a great general. He wasn't a slavery supporter. I also personally believe that slavery would die out itself when the south would have equal industry compared to north. You simply can't ask a country to stop it's industry all at once. Maybe the North should have invested more in South before becoming hypocrites half way through the war. If it was really about slavery, why didn't Lincoln issue Emancipation Proclamation before he raised an army with defined purpose of "Rooting out rebellion"? And don't even present Fort Sumpter as an example because Lincoln was clearly fortifying it to antagonize the southerners.
Treason against the British empire and the crown that oppressed the USA colonists until the Aryans rebelled and drove them out of the colonies.
Yet the Confederacy invaded fort Sumter 😂😂 no one was twisting their arm
Walk in a black mans shoes for a week in the USA and I think your views will change. When looking at history look at the person my friend. Ask yourself ......why are there NO statues of Hitler in Germany???
Markhas , You need a new history book. Robert E. Lee fought a war to enslave other human beings, he picked a fight with a more populous and better-armed north leading to hundreds of thousands dying which was a significant % of the population, he was brutal to his slaves which he had tortured, he enslaved free black people in the Northern cities that he raided, he massacred black soldiers trying to surrender, he refused a prisoner exchange with General Grant who wanted black soldiers included because any that lived were now property.
No body can rewrite history and the true story about them aren’t told completely.Let them have a placard on those statues that tells their whole history,not their stories.We need them in museums not in public places.
Its ridiculous to remove our history like this. I'm an American. What about my opinion. These are things that should be voted on. These things are being done without debate and that in of itself is a shame.
🛵 Gangs of blacks don't debate before they destroy.
Dang! I used live in Charlottesville.
I live here and I think they should stay.. Take a street and put up statues of blacks
Dirty Flirty-there is no compromising with barbarity, brutality, and inhumanity especially when its based on hatred...they have to go....put one up on your lawn....
As a former Virginia resident, I'm looking forward to see how far both the Virginia's Tourist
Industry and Virginia's Quality of Living tank when they start tearing down
monuments. Since the Virginia Tourist Industry has little to offer outside the state's
history, Virginia's downward spiral into poverty/ high taxes due to the loss of
tourist dollars should be quick and painless- if not an enjoyable one to watch.
As a current North Carolina resident, the thought of North Carolina's tourist
industry picking up on behalf of Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam pleases me
especially if the average North Carolina tax payer receives a tax break on
behalf of Virginia and the state's tax payers. This situation will be a win-win
for everyone involved. North Carolina experiences an increased cash flow from
its booming tourist industry while Virginia gets to wonder what went wrong. On
that final note, if Democrats really want to tear down monuments to "White
Supremacy" let's start where white supremacy began "The Cash Cow that
forms the Historic Triangle of Colonial Williamsburg/ Jamestown/ and
Yorktown." Let's really show who is boss by tearing down every historical
monument residing in Virginia (Including Colonial Williamsburg, the Natural
Bridge, Monticello, and University of Virginia) thus bankrupting the state in a
fashion that it deserves. North Carolina Tourist Industry and Tax Payers are
counting on it.
Virginia's not going to lose tourism because they take down a few confederate statues lmao get over yourself.
@@derekrequiem4359 Little child, I don't give a rat's ass. Did I make myself clear, Stupid? I can certainly hope so.
Did you give yourself a stroke writing all that crap...!
Don't we have any leaders that have leaders with the testicular fortitude to say, "No. You fascists aren't taking down any statues/monuments in my town/city/county"?
We have shotguns in our town down in SE Georgia to protect our civil war statutes and memorials and they are still standing in 2022!😮
What would Europe be like if the statues were only winners of wars? Who would go there?
This is one sided
i thanos irwin will eliminate the middle class
“What need of question now Whether he was wrong or right he bears no weapons of war of war now - he returns no foe-mans thrust who but a coward would would revile an honest soldiers dust “
The man in the video all of a sudden sounded like a confederate. He said "the president does not live here, we live here so we will choose what happens for us." Sounds like what the south was trying to tell Lincoln doesn't it? All of a sudden when a liberal wants his agenda pushed he becomes a advocate of states rights, amazing.
Its ironic
It’s not about erasing history. It’s about commemorating. Teach students about it, but don’t leave a statue to honor it. The monument was put there to celebrate their actions not remember how awful they were.
If you want confederate statues all over the place at least put them in places that make sense, like prisons.
The big problem is that people don't want to admit that their ancestors did horrible things. If Germany had memorials to Nazi leaders, people would be going nuts.
Is this really a “debate”?
Not a single one of my ancestors was a Confederate nor a slave owner. Most of those monuments were erected by widows and orphans and public donations, while the grandest of the statues nearly all commissioned through public subscription, and they once played the biggest part of the healing of a very divided nation. The South was and still is the most patriotic region of Americans, based on military enlistments from all the world wars. Polls show the majority of Americans don't favor removing any of these statues, though many should be reconsidered for moving to a museum, battlefield park or cemetery. But it's absurd for the former Confederate capitols like Richmond and Montgomery to remove theirs and try to kill their tourist industry.
Patrick Marquis Regardless of how confederate statues and monuments were erected it should never have been done and certainly they should not have been allowed to stand for so many years. Take the confederate statues and monuments down and place them in museums where they belong.
Widows and orphans? Try Lost Cause cultists and Klansmen.
Brian Sheehan ythey were not lost call cultiest they were not fight to keep slave they fought against over taxation reread your history the statues need to remain where they were put I don't see any black thing being taken down I don't think a school should have black names or streets it offends me I want that changed we are not an African nation so that that down and put it someplace people can go look at it in a far away place
Matthew Chenault agreed I think all the stuff that represents black people and history needs to be taken and put somewhere places can go look at it I am offended when it is on a school or street sign or displayed somewhere in public if we put ours in museums they need to do the same I have Ken folks from from the south and am Ken to one of the people on a statue I don't want to go see him in a museum I want to see him out side where he was
Matthew Chenault Nazi veterans were never honored. Why should confederate soldiers, misled by slaveowners to fight against their country, be honored at all? They can be pitied for being patsies, but that's all.
Hey I have an idea let's tear down the Malcolm X statues let's tear down the Martin Luther King statues cuz that's offensive to my heritage
You are right. Malcom X promoted violence. But if we did that there would be a witch hunt to find the responsible parties who would then be burned at the stakes. How do we defend ourselves against black racism toward white Americans?
@Me as me As me WRONG!! This is how Wikipedia defines racism: “Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance . . . “ Any human being can be racist independent of whether or not they have the ability to act on it. My suggestion: don’t use the word if you don’t understand its meaning.
@Me as me As me Malcom X was an ex-con who was EXTREMELY racist and promoted violence against white people. Did you learn nothing in history class? By the way, this conversation would be more productive if you could write in complete sentences.
J DJ just bc Wikipedia says it doesn’t mean it’s right
@@comfyblanket8390 Agreed.
I believe that we should keep statues up to teach our kids what happened in the past because when we take down Confederate statues we take down our history that we need to know about and it's like hiding how horrible our country is
have you ever heard of the nazis?
Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines who fought in the Civil war were made U.S. Veterans by an act of Congress in in 1957, U.S. Public Law 85-425, Sec 410, which was approved 23 May, 1958. This made all Confederate Veterans equal to U.S. Veterans. Before that, under U.S. Public Law 810, Approved by the 17th Congress on 26 Feb 1929 the War Department was directed to erect headstones and recognize Confederate grave sites as U.S. War dead grave sites. Just for the record, the last Confederate veteran died in 1958. So, in essence, when you remove a Confederate statue, monument or headstone, you are in fact, removing a statue, monument or headstone of a U.S. VETERAN.” (a felony)
Candido-when you honor a confederate soldier-you are honoring a slaver, a rapist, a fascist, and a traitor.....
There's no way to erase history btw... It sure is funny sitting back and watching People getting upset over graven images.
This comment gave me aids
If people forget historic moments, or it gets rewritten, then it won’t matter what really happened. Some don’t care about preserving the truth if it doesn’t serve their purpose.
Ok remove all historical statues as long as slavery is NEVER EVER brought up again!!! No more talking writing or anything about it!!!!
The United States has minted commemorative coins since 1892. Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and other confederates have been honored by the United States Government through the issue of these beautiful coins. I have the Stone Mountain half dollar and I'm very proud of it. My Grandfather left it to me in his will. He had lots of old confederate paper money. Some quite valuable. I'm proud of my family, I'm proud of my ancestors, and I'm proud to be a working tax paying citizen of the United States.
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There is a solution for the Confederate soldier monuments and statues, take them out of the public squares and put them on Civil War battlefields to teach history with. Re-purpose them to teach the history of the defeat of Confederacy on the battlefields. Lots of Civil War parks have very few markers, use them to mark surrender sites, retreat routes, headquarters, etc. The Civilian monuments are not as easy to find homes for. Some might go in museums. Don't destroy them, re-purpose them to teach the history of the defeat on the battlefield.
“[T]he Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising.”
this is what happens when you give people equal rights and freedoms
for the statues of someone on a horse.....they should take off the person but leave the horse to remind everyone that horses support the same stupid stuff as most people do
nationwide public election if you voted for president you can vote weather to keep them or tear them down leave it up to public to decide
Keep these monuments they represent this countries history.History is important
Should we have statues of Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth? They were very big parts of American history.
If people think that taking these statues down will satisfy and appease the blacks got something to learn.. nothing is ever enough.
Bill Scheiderer Not trying to satisfy or appease the blacks; confederate statues and monuments should never have been erected; taking them down and putting them in museums is what's morally right and is long overdue.
amen
Look how well spoken these speakers are. Compare that to the hating racist they showed in the beginning of the video
HER EYES THOUGH
I was long undecided whether Confederate monuments in the South should be preserved or not. I mean, any decent person would agree that the Confederates were scum... but still, monuments are history, and I don't support the destruction of art or statues no matter how much of a scumbag the subject of the piece was.
We know Nero was a tyrant, we known Henry VIII was voted as the worst monarch in British history for a good reason, we know Genghis Khan was infamous for a reign of terror... but despite all of those personas being absolute degenerates, I doubt anyone would suggest demolishing their monuments, right? I mean, the presence of their monuments does not in any way represent that anyone would like to resurrect them into power today.
However, here is why I've come to the conclusion that Confederate monuments should be demolished. Not only that, but I think the Confederate flag (or flags) should be banned from official use... just like the Nazi flag is not waved around Germany.
See, while the historical figures I've mentioned are well in the past and have no modern ideological claim... the Confederate ideology is still out there. I mean, it started not long after the end of the Civil War, and lasts to this day, the neo-Confederate ideology and the "Lost Cause" nonsense.
I've done my research in various political Facebook groups, and I was horrified to see how much there is an attempt to justify what the Confederacy did. Neo-Confederates attempt to push the "Lost Cause" narrative, claiming the Civil War was not about slavery but about "state rights"... they just omit the part how the "right" they were talking about was mainly the "right" to hold other beings as slaves.
All of the slave women raped, all of the men whipped, all of the abuse, the chains, the humiliation... nope, neo-Confederates conveniently cut it out.
And that ideology never stopped! The lynching continued well into the 20th century. In the 1920, the KKK peaked 6,000,000 members, that was Confederate ideology right there. The horrific segregation laws continued into the 1960s, and same was with the anti-miscegenation laws that literally had humans sent to prison for having interracial relationships.
But that didn't stop in the 1960s! In 2017, a violent rally took part in Charlottsville, Virginia, called "United the Right Rally" against the removal of Confederate monument. In the rally, Confederate and Nazi flags were waved.
The reason I support the removal of Confederate monuments is because that ideology, the horrific and vile ideology of slavery and the subjugating of other human beings, is still there! The dehumanisation of black people is still there. Those monuments are part of that ideology and are used to preserve it.
And you know what? I honestly understand where neo-Confederates are coming from... it's not easy to admit your ancestors were lowlife scum who fought to preserve slavery, so you create a new narrative. Will the descendants of Nazi soldiers try the same in the future? Who knows.
And yes, I know not all Confederate soldiers were for slavery, some were drafted against their will... and? So were many soldiers serving in the German Army in WWII. Your point is...? The ones with a moral compass deserted, and the ones with a moral compass and courage did what the great Newton Knight and the Free State of Jones did, and resisted the Confederate regime.
Those monuments need to be demolished, pretty much as we don't have Nazi monuments around today.
No black child should have to walk past a monument which was the gathering point of those who violently lynched his great uncle, and which still serves as a gathering point for those who lament the loss of the Confederacy and lament the abolition of slavery.
Don't touch the statue! Dictator!
So also the statue of Stalin should be kept?
I am a descendant of Devil Anse Hatfeild. I am from Michigan. I do not approve of tearing down not only American History but also My Family History. Tearing these statues are not the answer. I love all races and it would be great if we could all just get along. If I remember your education right African kings sold their own people to slavery. Now if you want to condemn slavery customer the men who first sold them to the merchants.
WTF
Who’s from tiktok
Ok but George Washington had slaves.
Ikr. they wont tell you that in school
@@carter3096 my school did. I even had to write an essay about it. Unfourtantly people get caught up in "southern pride" or "slavery is wrong" to justify a postion. Both of which are weak arguments. What's does a dead guy have to do with a statue being taken down? Because slavery is bad Confederate stautes are bad. Therefore all statues are bad because they represent slavery. Also being prideful of something doesn't make ones postion justified. Anyways I know you werent commenting on that. Just thought it should be something that should said coming from a guy who lives in Texas.
What about Thomas Jefferson?
@@AxenfonKlatismrek yes Thomas Jefferson had slaves when he made the comment all men were created equal he wasn't talking about a slaves but yet they make a comment video while Thomas Jefferson was great because he said all men are created equal.
He made the nation, the cofederates divided the nation.
No one is erasing your history. That's why let's put these people into history books, and these monuments into museums.
How about this give the descendants of slaves in America our reparations we are rightfully owed and you can keep all the confederate monuments, street names, school names, park names and the confederate flag can be flown all over. Thats what you call a fair exchange.
The United States enforced slavery for 85 years under the US flag, while the Confederacy and slavery under the Confederate flag only lasted... 5 years.
If any flag represents slavery more, it's the United States flag, and United States monuments to the founding fathers who were slave owners, and could of freed their slaves at any time if they actually believed the rhethoric they spouted. The United States is hated, and it's time it came down from our government building, and the whole US regime thrown on the trash heap of history, just like Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and the Khmer Rouge rule.
Every time I have to look at a United States flag flying, with it's stars corralled into a corner by prison bars, and see that evil panopticon police state eye atop the pyramid of slavery on the dollar bill, I am completely offended and appalled that I live in a country that tolerates these blatant symbols that are overt affronts upon freedom and liberty......
You don't know much about history, because the Native American tribes had a huge civilization here in North America. They built some pretty large cities all across America. Just off the top of my head... Etowah Mounds, Mesa Verde / Puye Cliff Dwellings, Cahokia Mounds, Taos Pueblo.
You can't just take someone's land or territory if it doesn't belong to you... that's fundamental to all law. You don't have a country, you only have a back yard and a front yard... that doesn't mean I can come and take them both.
I am not arguing the right or wrong of the matter, just the fact.
If you jump around a camp fire wearing a loin cloth and your biggest technological advancement is propelling a sharp stick with a bit of twine.... Then a guy with a repeating rifle that can reach out and talk to you at a 150 yards ➕, and he knows how to use it to boot..... If it wasn't done by the big bad boogie, I mean white man then it probably would have been the Spaniards, or somebody else. The outcome of that is history, PERIOD. Same with slavery, it happened. Good, bad, doesn't matter! It happened and can't be changed till the Indians invent a time machine.
So get over it!
All we can do is remember the past, learn from it, and do not repeat it. Which is a compelling reason to keep these monuments out so the next generation will see them and ask their parents what they mean.
I am even less apologetic about this statement.
IF YOU HATE THIS COUNTRY than either take it over or MOVE THE F**K OUT!!!
Keep the flags keep the statues. THE CONFERECY WILL SURVIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the hell is the Conferecy?
@@BPD1586 He means Conferaunendencyrerrcy
How many statues are their of African American that fought in the civil eat??
Nobody is erasing history